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Untitled
2000
Eric Poitevin
Photography
175 x 220 cm
C-print.
© ADAGP, Paris, 2010.
The vegetable kingdom is another recurrent motif in Eric Poitevin’s photography. With its network of branches rising to the sky like giant tentacles, this tree shot from below epitomizes the contradicting forces of life (the vital upward thrust of the trunk) and death (the bare branches) that are present in all his works. What may also be read into this shot is the photographer’s desire to capture a moment suspended in time when a concrete image hovers on the verge of abstraction.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
© ADAGP, Paris, 2010.
The vegetable kingdom is another recurrent motif in Eric Poitevin’s photography. With its network of branches rising to the sky like giant tentacles, this tree shot from below epitomizes the contradicting forces of life (the vital upward thrust of the trunk) and death (the bare branches) that are present in all his works. What may also be read into this shot is the photographer’s desire to capture a moment suspended in time when a concrete image hovers on the verge of abstraction.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
Eric Poitevin
France
Born in 1961
Born 1961 in Longuyon, France.
Lives and works in Mangiennes, France.
Eric Poitevin made a stunning debut in photography with his portraits of World War I veterans, in 1985. Then followed a residency at the Villa Medici, Rome, which produced portraits of dignitaries from the papal court; photographs of young women’s faces with hypnotic gazes; of dead deer killed in the hunt; and of boxes of decomposing butterflies. A photographer of endangered creatures and places, he carefully avoids any documentary aspect to create images capable of holding the spectator’s attention by their aesthetic force alone.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
Lives and works in Mangiennes, France.
Eric Poitevin made a stunning debut in photography with his portraits of World War I veterans, in 1985. Then followed a residency at the Villa Medici, Rome, which produced portraits of dignitaries from the papal court; photographs of young women’s faces with hypnotic gazes; of dead deer killed in the hunt; and of boxes of decomposing butterflies. A photographer of endangered creatures and places, he carefully avoids any documentary aspect to create images capable of holding the spectator’s attention by their aesthetic force alone.
Text : Carole Vantroys.
Translation : Pamela Hargreaves.
Artwork of
Eric Poitevin
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